Welcome to Splunk Enterprise 7.2

If you are new to Splunk Enterprise, read the Splunk Enterprise Overview. If you are familiar with Splunk Enterprise and want to explore the new features interactively, download the Splunk Enterprise Overview app from Splunkbase.

Planning to upgrade from an earlier version?

If you plan to upgrade to this version from an earlier version of Splunk Enterprise, read How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise in the Installation Manual for information you need to know before you upgrade.

The Deprecated features topic lists computing platforms, browsers, and features for which Splunk has deprecated or removed support in this release.

What's New in 7.2

New Feature or Enhancement

Description

Workload management: search prioritization

Workload management enables prioritized provisioning of resource (CPU, memory) allocation for searches, in alignment with business priorities. It allows classification of searches into different resource groups, and then reserves a guaranteed amount of system resources (CPU, memory) per resource group regardless of the load on the system. See About workload management in the Workload Management manual.

SmartStore

SmartStore is designed to allow customers to scale compute and storage independently, reducing hardware infrastructure costs and operational complexity. See About SmartStore in Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers.

Real-time health monitoring of Splunk deployments

Building on the new monitoring framework which will enable a Splunk software feature to publish its state to a collection object accessible via a REST API. A feature using this framework can provide a reason, context, and tips to resolve its unhealthy state. See About proactive Splunk component monitoring in Monitoring Splunk Enterprise.

Guided data onboarding

Using both Splunk Web and Splunk documentation, Guided Data Onboarding (GDO) provides end-to-end guidance for getting specific data sources into specific Splunk platform deployments. If you have a Splunk deployment up and running and if you have an admin or equivalent role so that you can install add-ons, you can use these guides to get data from popular data sources into your Splunk deployment. You can find all the Guided Data Onboarding manuals by clicking the Add data tab on the Splunk Enterprise documentation site.

You can apply the eval command at data-ingest time, before data is indexed. All eval functions are now available for use when ingesting data into Splunk Enterprise.

Docker support

With official support for Splunk Enterprise inside Docker containers, customers can reap the benefits of their investments in container technologies by deploying Splunk software on containerized infrastructures. See Deploy and run Splunk Enterprise inside Docker containers in the Installation Manual.

What's New in 7.2.2

Splunk Enterprise 7.2.2 was released on December 19, 2018. It introduces enhancements to several features.

Enhancement

Description

Workload management: search prioritization

Improved usability and error handling in workload management. This provides a useful analysis on any misconfigurations that could affect the setup and functioning of workload management in Splunkd deployments. See Configure workload management in Workload Management.

systemd support

Added systemd as a supported system and service manager for Linux. This allows systemd to be used for managing Splunk software processes, in addition to the existing init daemon(initd), for supported Linux operating system distributions. See Run Splunk Enterprise as a systemd service in Admin Manual.

Documentation Updates

The Workload Management manual is added to the documentation set for Splunk Enterprise 7.2.0 and later. Read this manual to learn how to create policy-based CPU and memory resource groups that you can allocate to search and indexing processes in Splunk Enterprise.

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